There are more than 1,100 of the jets in service today. Air India flies nearly three dozen of them.

In a statement, Boeing said that it was aware of the crash on the Air India flight and was “working to gather more information.”

The partnership comes after Newark airport, where United has a big hub, suffered long delays because of air traffic control problems.

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Controllers switched frequencies and planes were “safely separated,” officials said. The 90-second outage on Monday followed communications problems at Newark airport.

Many flights have been delayed at the busy hub because of radar outages, shortages of air traffic controllers and construction on a runway.

The delays are the latest problem to plague the airport, where radar and radio communications have recently malfunctioned.

The company, which serves airports in liberal cities on the coasts, has agreed to operate chartered flights for Immigration and Customs Enforcement.